Reading for Discussion:
Alexandre Parent-Duchâtelet, "On the families of Paris prostitutes" from his On Prostitution in the City of Paris (1835), on-line.

Martin Nadaud, "Memoirs of a Former Mason's Assistant" in Traugott [misspelled "Tranpott" on the e-reserves page], ed., The French Worker one-reserves (the e-reserves password is the word missing from this saying: "the more things _____, the more they stay the same.")

Claire Goldberg Moses, French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century (1984).

Linda Nochlin, Realism (1971).

Joan Scott,' "L'ouvriere! Mot impie, sordide ...": Women
Workers in the Discourse of French Political Economy, 1840-1860' and 'A
Statistical Representation of Work,' both in her Gender and the Politics
of History (1988 or 1999).

William Reddy, The Rise of Market Culture: the Textile Trade and French Society, 1750-1900 (1984).

William Sewell, Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from 1789 to 1848 (1980).

Eugene Sue, The Mysteries of Paris (this novel was published in installments in a Paris newspaper, across 15 months in 1842-1843), selections.